Phelps County posts its court channels on three pages: the Phelps County Court page, the Phelps District Court page, and the Phelps County homepage. Those are the stops to check when routing a Funk court docket question.
How to Search the Funk Court Docket
Funk itself offers no municipal docket page, no judge listing, and no citation search form. Charged with a Funk traffic ticket or ordinance matter? Begin at the JUSTICE Trial Court Case Search. Run a search by party name or case number. Then narrow it to Phelps County and County Court. That court handles traffic, municipal ordinances, misdemeanors, small claims, and preliminary felony work. If a felony charge moves forward, a separate District Court docket opens in Phelps County.
- Keep the Funk ticket, case number, or a party’s complete court-record name.
- Search JUSTICE by party name or court case number. The $17 one-time name search returns up to 30 records for three calendar days.
- Select Phelps and County Court if a broad result needs narrowing; select District Court when a case moved after bind-over.
- Check the caption, parties, court, and year in the result row, then open Details.
- Read the Register of Actions and call the correct clerk when a Funk date or document cannot be confirmed online.
The Register of Actions works like a dated index to the court docket. It logs events such as filing, service, hearing, order, payment, and judgment. One entry does not always mean the underlying document is attached, so treat it as a record of what happened and when.
Funk Has a County Court Docket
What the official pages show is a county route for Funk, not a city portal. Nebraska County Court jurisdiction covers municipal-ordinance violations. So a Funk ordinance or traffic case lands in Phelps County Court unless the citation names another venue. The clerk magistrate office keeps the County Court docket. JUSTICE gives the public its statewide case-information path.
Keep that conclusion narrow. The city lists no judge, no night session, no self-pay kiosk, no warrant amnesty, no court schedule, and no caseload figure. Treat those gaps as missing from official sources. That is not proof no local service exists or could ever appear.
The Funk Municipal Court
Funk has no municipal court of its own. Local ordinance matters and citations tied to the town are handled by the Phelps County Court in Holdrege. That is where the case number, docket entries, and copy requests live, all under the Phelps County system. Funk may still show up on the location line of a ticket.
The village keeps its own civic identity, though. Phelps County's local-interest page lists the Funk Community Building. Two city parks and a ball field round it out. Nice context for a visit. None of those places holds court records or runs a clerk's counter, so a Phelps County court docket search starts in Holdrege, not at any Funk building.
Funk Community Building and Court Records
Don't look for court records at the Funk Community Building. It is a gathering hall, not a records office. It has no public terminal or clerk. Everything for a Funk case runs through the courthouse channel in Holdrege. The Phelps County Courthouse sits at 715 5th Avenue, Holdrege. County Court uses P.O. Box 255, Holdrege, NE 68949, and the clerk magistrate office answers at 308-995-6561.
Hours matter here. County Court keeps counter hours of 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The county, though, lists general courthouse hours of 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The official pages name no terminal room and no special Funk counter. Call before you drive over.
Phelps County Court clerk magistrate
P.O. Box 255
Holdrege, NE 68949
308-995-6561
County Court records for Funk traffic, municipal-ordinance, and related court cases.
Funk Court Dates and Settings
Start with the ticket itself. The appearance date printed on a Funk citation is your first source for a court date. Next, search the multi-court calendar: pick County Court, choose Phelps, and enter a date or at least two letters of a last name. Compare whatever comes back with the latest JUSTICE entry. A continuance can leave an older date sitting in the Register of Actions while a newer setting is already on file.
One gap to know about. The live calendar excludes Phelps District Court, so a Funk case that has moved there will not appear. Search those cases in JUSTICE and call the District Court clerk at 308-995-2281. An empty calendar result never proves that no hearing exists.
| Date | The current date on the citation, calendar, or latest docket setting. |
|---|---|
| Time | The listed time of the court event, subject to clerk confirmation. |
| Location | The court location returned by the public calendar when it is published. |
| Case number | The court identifier that connects a Funk citation to a docket and copy request. |
| Setting type | Appearance, arraignment, hearing, trial, sentencing, or review. |
Funk Court Calendar and District Gap
The calendar leaves out Phelps District Court, and that gap can trip up a search. County Court settings show up when you pick Phelps in the online calendar. A District Court entry will not appear there. The exclusion has a published technical explanation behind it. A Funk felony may be bound over. It can sit in District Court with a setting that only the clerk can confirm. JUSTICE still serves as the case-search layer for both court types. Work in order. Pull the citation or the latest court notice first. Then check JUSTICE. Use the calendar when a County Court case applies, and finish with the clerk who handles that case type. That sequence tells a normal calendar limitation apart from a missing case, a reset, or a restricted record. It also keeps an old entry from being mistaken for the setting that is live now.
Funk Traffic Tickets
A traffic ticket written in Funk runs through Phelps County Court. It does not go to a city tribunal of its own. Check the citation first. If it permits a waiver, you can pay through the Nebraska citation-payment portal. Have the citation type ready. Pick Phelps County, then enter the citation number, date, your name, address, and the amount. The "In the City of" box may read Funk. The portal still wants Phelps as the county. Need more than payment, such as case status or the full docket register? Use JUSTICE or call County Court.
No waiver allowed? Then you must appear at the date and time printed on the ticket. Paying online does not excuse a required appearance, so hold off until you know. Signing a citation only promises to appear; it is not a plea of guilt. Online payments carry a convenience charge of $1.25 to $2.95. And a warrant will not vanish on its own just because you paid.
Funk Citation City Field and Court Record
The city field on a citation ties the incident to Funk, but that is not how a court docket tracks the file. The court record leans on other identifiers. A citation number works for the payment form. The court case number is the one that unlocks JUSTICE, the calendar, the Register of Actions, and the CC 3:29 copy request, so keep both numbers whenever a ticket and court notice show them. A generic example will not hand you the real Phelps case number, so do not guess from one.
- Citation number
- The ticket identifier used to locate the citation-payment account.
- Court case number
- The court identifier used for the docket, setting, and copy request.
- Register of Actions
- The chronological index of court events in the Funk-related Phelps case.
Official samples sometimes show a traffic case styled TR 09 9999999. The exact Phelps number has to come from the case record itself or from the clerk.
Where Funk Cases End Up
Nearly everything from Funk lands in one place. Phelps County Court handles traffic, municipal-ordinance, misdemeanor, small-claims, probate, and limited civil matters, and it also runs preliminary hearings in felony cases. A felony that gets bound over moves up. Phelps District Court then opens its own case and keeps the general-jurisdiction trial docket, along with general civil, domestic-relations, and protection-order records of its own.
Docket flow: Funk citation or ordinance matter → Phelps County Court → Phelps District Court after felony bind-over when applicable.
Being a city does not give Funk its own court tier anywhere in Phelps County's structure. For the fuller picture, see the Phelps County court docket overview.
Funk Court Docket and City Scale
Funk is small. The 2020 Census counted 175 residents. Nebraska's 2023 certified city list matches that with 175. The village publishes no court caseload or municipal filing report of its own. Phelps County logged 402 traffic filings in FY2025. But that figure covers the whole county and cannot be parceled out to Funk. Size does not change the route. A Funk docket still travels the regular Phelps County Court path.
Search with what identifies a case, not what estimates volume. A case number, citation, party name, court type, and Phelps County selection will get you further than the county-wide report ever could.
Public Access to Funk Court Records
Funk court records live with Phelps County Court. A case may belong to Phelps District Court instead. You can search public court information through JUSTICE. Use the courthouse public terminal free of charge, or ask the responsible clerk directly. Bring something concrete: a full party name, case number, year, case type, or citation. State policy lets a clerk search a specific record when the identifier is complete enough. Clerks can also hand over photocopies or certified copies that you identify specifically.
Access has edges, though. Sealed cases may stay out of an ordinary search. So can confidential juvenile and adoption records, protected personal or financial details, and anything restricted by law or court order. A document image that never appears might simply exist on paper only. It could date from an older era, remain unscanned, or fall outside retention rules. When normal court access fails to settle a formal public-record request, Nebraska's Public Records Act process is the next step.
Key Rules:
Neb. Ct. R. §§ 1-804 and 1-805 provide for authorized remote and courthouse-terminal access to eligible public electronic court information.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 84-712 provides a general right to inspect and copy public records unless another law restricts them.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-3523 restricts ordinary dissemination of court-ordered sealed adult criminal records.
Funk Court Docket and Federal Records
A federal case is something else entirely. It is not a Funk municipal matter and not a Phelps County Court file. The U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska runs its own systems. It has its own clerk channels too. Do not mail a city ticket or a County Court copy request to a federal courthouse. A federal docket resource existing is not a reason to. Start where the paper points: the citation or court notice, then the Phelps County route. The U.S. District Court public page describes that separate federal layer.
That public page confirms the split: federal access runs on a different system from the Funk County Court route. The federal court directory lists federal clerk contacts, not the Phelps County clerk.
Reach for the directory only when a notice actually names a federal case. The Nebraska Judicial Branch annual-report release adds state-court administration context behind the Funk docket route.
For ordinary Funk court records, state-court administration is the level that matters. PACER's official pricing page covers federal access fees for matters that truly sit in federal court.
PACER is a federal tool. It does not replace the Phelps County court docket for a Funk citation.
Funk Court Records and CC 3:29
Need a specific document from Funk County Court? Find the case number in JUSTICE first. Then send in CC 3:29. It works whether you want the copy emailed or mailed, certified or not. The fee schedule is straightforward. An electronic non-certified copy costs nothing, and a mailed non-certified copy runs $0.25 per page. Electronic certification is $1 per request. Mailed certification adds $1 per seal plus the pages. Check with the clerk on payment, delivery, and any restriction before you mail anything off.
Know what you are asking for. A docket is only an index of events. The filed document is the paper itself, and a certified copy carries the clerk's authentication. CC 3:29 sorts those requests apart. But no form can lift a sealing order or conjure a record that is not available.